PETER T. STRUCK CURRICULUM VITAE. 201 Logan Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA ph: ,

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1 PETER T. STRUCK CURRICULUM VITAE 201 Logan Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA ph: , Education Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997 (Comparative Literature) M.A., University of Chicago, 1991 (Divinity) A. B., University of Michigan, 1987 (Independent Honors: Anthropology and English) Areas of Interest Greek and Roman literary criticism; Greek and Roman divination; Greek and Roman religion; History of literary theory from the ancient period to the present; Late Antiquity; Greek and Roman magic; Theurgy; Neoplatonism; Contemporary hermeneutics; Contemporary semiotics Professional Experience Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania ( present) Assistant Professor, co-director, Program in Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Missouri-Kansas City ( ) Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics, Ohio State University ( ) Preceptor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago ( ) Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago (Fall 1996) Instructor, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, Intensive Greek Program. (Summer, 1996) Faculty Fellow, Stouffer College House, University of Pennsylvania ( ) Faculty Fellow (Interim), Hamilton College House, University of Pennsylvania ( ) Grants, Awards, and Honors Robert Goheen Fellow, National Ceneter for the Humanities ( ) Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Fellowship for Junior Faculty ( ) Research Foundation Grant, University Pennsylvania (2001) Distributed Learning Venture Fund Grants, University Pennsylvania (2000, 2001) (see Whiting Dissertation Year Fellowship ( )

2 Overseas Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Chicago (1994) University of Chicago, Dean of the Humanities Travel Grant (1994, 1995, 1996) University Fellowship ( ) Publications Books in Progress: Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts Greek and Roman Divination edited with Sarah Iles Johnston Peer-reviewed Articles: "Viscera and the Divine: Dreams as Bridge Between the Corporeal and the Incorporeal," Prayer, Magic and the Stars in Antiquity, Scott Noegel, ed. (Penn State University Press, forthcoming, 2002). "The Ordeal of the Divine Sign: Divination and Manliness in Archaic and Classical Greece" in Andreia, Ralph Rosen and Ineke Sluiter, eds. (Brill, forthcoming, 2002). "Pagan and Christian Theurgies: Iamblichus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Religion and Magic in Late Antiquity," Ancient World 32, no. 2 (Fall, 2001): Articles in Collected Volumes: Review: "Hermeticism," Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, Sarah Iles Johnston, ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming, 2004). "The Poet as Conjurer: Magic and Literary Theory in Late Antiquity," in Magic and Divination in the Ancient World, vol. II, Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel, eds. (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2001). "Speech Acts and the Stakes of Hellenism in Iamblichus, de Mysteriis 7," in Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World, Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer, eds., Religions of the Graeco-Roman World Series (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2001), pp "Iamblichus, de Mysteriis, book 1," intro., trans., and notes, in Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, Richard Valantasis, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp "At the Limits of Mimesis: Reading Symbolically in Late Antiquity and Beyond" in Auerbach s Mimesis: Fifty Years Later (Basel: A. Francke Verlag, 1998), pp "Allegory, Aenigma, and Anti-Mimesis: A Struggle Against Aristotelian Literary Theory" in Greek Literary Theory After Aristotle (Amsterdam: Vrije University Press, 1995), pp

3 Review of Dan Cohn-Sherbok and John M. Court (eds), Religious Diversity in the Graeco-Roman World: A Survey of Recent Scholarhip (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) forthcoming in Journal of Roman Studies. Review of Oiva Kuisma, Proclus Defense of Homer (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1996) in Classical Philology (Jan. 1999): Professional Activities "Greek and Roman Divination," University of Pennsylvania, April 20-21, Principal organizer for international conference on the topic of divination in the classical world. Organizing committee: Fritz Graf (Princeton), Sarah Johnston (Ohio State), Christopher Faraone (Chicago). "Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity," respondent for session at the Society of Biblical Literature, Nashville, November 18-21, 2000 Dissertations Advised (all University of Pennsylvania) Daniel McLean, (Classical Studies) 2002 Alex Purves, Telling Space: Topography, Time, and Narrative from Homer to Xenophon (Classical Studies) 2002 Jennifer Ebbler, Pedants in the Apparel of Heroes? Cultures of Latin Letter-Writing from Cicero to Ennodius (Classical Studies) 2001 Michael McShane, Plotinus and the Limits of Discursive Rationality (Philosophy) 2000 Undergraduate Advisees Fran Lattanzio, Michael Horwitz, and Timothy Demorest. Undergraduates originally hired as part of a Distributed Learning Venture Fund Technology Grant to create a web site for CLST 200, Greek and Roman Mythology. This work developed into a senior thesis research project for Lattanzio and Horwitz on using database display technology in pedagogically creative ways. ( ) Stephanie Langin-Hooper. Faculty Advisor for her individualized major in "Myth, Ritual, and Religion of Ancient Cultures" ( ) Service Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Review Committee, Univ. of Pennsylvania (2001) Writing Committee, University of Pennsylvania ( ) Faculty Fellow, Stouffer College House, University of Pennsylvania (2000-) Hamilton College House, Faculty Master search, University of Pennsylvania (2000) Penn Reading Project discussion leader (2000)

4 Informal presentations for Career Services on life after graduate school (2000) Interim Faculty Fellow, Hamilton College House, University of Pennsylvania ( ) Freshman Advisor, University of Pennsylvania (1999- ) Undergraduate Committee, UMKC ( ) Latin tutor to local high school students, Chicago ( ) Review committee, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago (1994) Papers Delivered Title TBA, paper to be delivered at "The Religious Self in Antiquity" to be held September at Indiana University in Bloomington. [Invited] "Divination and Literary Criticism?" at the conference "Greek and Roman Divination," University of Pennsylvania, April 21, "Notes on the Mechanics of Divination in Practice: Divine and Human Speech in the Iliad, Oedipus Rex, and the 'Wooden Wall'" (revised version of below) at the Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium, November 3, "Divination, Andreia and Virtus: The Divine and the Formation of Social Goods," at the conference "ANDREIA and Ancient Constructs of Manly Courage," Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values I, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, June 3, "Viscera and the Divine: Dreams as Divinatory Bridge Between the Corporeal and the Incorporeal" at the conference "Prayer, Magic, and the Stars," University of Washington, Seattle, Saturday, March 4, "Dreams and Flesh: The Case of Hippocrates' On Regimen IV," at the American Philological Association annual meeting, Dallas, December 28, "Sacramental Reading: The Dionysian Imagination in Late Antiquity," at the conference "Plotinus and his Visions: The Alexandrian Intellectual World in Transition," Claremont Institute for Antiquity and Early Christianity, Feb. 26, [Invited] "Sacramental Reading" (same as above) at the Hall Center, Social and Cultural Studies Before 1500 Seminar, University of Kansas, Feb. 16, [Invited] "Synesius and the Hermeneutics of Within: Dream Divination and Psychology in a Synthetic Cosmos," American Academy of Religions Conference in the Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Session on "Pagans and Christians at the End of Antiquity," Orlando, Florida, November 23, "Speech Acts and the Stakes of Hellenism in Iamblichus, de Mysteriis 7," at the Second International Conference on Magic in the Ancient World, Orange California, August 4, 1998.

5 "Pagan and Christian Theurgies," at the American Philological Association annual meeting, Chicago, December 28, "Speech Acts and the Stakes of Hellenism in Iamblichus, de Mysteriis 7," (earlier version of paper delivered at Orange, Calf.) at the American Academy of Religions Conference, San Francisco, November 23, "The Talismanic 'Symbol': The Poet as Conjurer in Ancient Literary Theory," at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, New York, December 28, "Face to Face with the Gods: The Theurgic 'Symbol' and the Representation of the Divine," at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religions, New Orleans, Nov "Against Mimesis: The Neoplatonists and the 'Symbol' in Ancient Literary Theory," at the conference, "Mimesis 50 Years Later: A conference in honor of Erich Auerbach," Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, the Netherlands, May 29-31, "The Riddling Text: Divination and the Interpretation of Literature in Antiquity," The Workshop on Rhetoric and Poetics, Ancient and Modern, University of Chicago, May 16, "The Riddling Text" (earlier version of above) delivered at the conference, "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Social Thought," Binghamton University, SUNY, October "The Neoplatonists and the Symbol: A Performative Background for Medieval Literary Theory," delivered at the conference, "Performance, Ritual, and Spectacle in the Middle Ages," Columbia University, October 14, "Allegory and Anti-Mimesis," delivered at the conference, "Greek Literary Theory After Aristotle," Amsterdam, Vrije University, April 6-8, "Sumbolon: The Magical History of Proclus' Literary Theory," delivered at the conference "Magic and Divination in the Ancient World," University of California, Berkeley, Feb. 18, "The Early History of the Symbol: Proclus' Invention of a Literary Category from Pythagorean, Theurgic, and Allegorical Traditions," delivered at the Workshop on Poetics and Rhetoric, Ancient and Modern, University of Chicago, February 17, Referee Johns Hopkins University Press, Classical Philology, Mosaic, Addison Wesley Longman, Prentice Hall Masters Thesis Directed "Selections from Michael Psellos' Interpretation of the Chaldean Oracles: Translation, Introduction, and Commentary" Lee T. Papouras, Ohio State University (1998) Professional Memberships

6 American Philological Association (since 1995) American Academy of Religions / Society of Biblical Literature (since 1995) Related Experience Managing Editor, History, book series conceived by Peter Struck and Lewis Lapham. First volume, The End of the World (New York: History Book Club, 1997; reissued St. Martin's Press, 1998) Editorial Assistant, Critical Inquiry ( ) Researcher-Reporter, U. S. News and World Report ( ) Copyeditor, The New Republic ( ) Languages Greek, Latin, French, German References Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania); Michael Murrin, W. Ralph Johnson, Christopher Faraone, Françoise Meltzer (University of Chicago); Sarah Iles Johnston (Ohio State); Walter Burkert (University of Zurich)